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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. "How

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

. ยท Salient, consistent standards: Universities should provide departments with a presentation template where each standard in the promotion and tenure document is projected onto the screen as it is discussed. Narrow, self-serving yardsticks for assessing impact of scholarship, teaching, and service. Traditional standards (e.g.,

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Scholar Who Creates Inclusive Spaces - Dr. Melva Treviรฑo Peรฑa

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Find your people, learn how to support them, and let them support you when you need it too.โ€ Human interaction is at the center of Dr. Melva Treviรฑo Peรฑaโ€™s work. At The University of Rhode Islandโ€™s (URI) Department of Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences, much of Treviรฑo Peรฑaโ€™s scholarship involves listening to and studying people.

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nationโ€™s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. โ€œWe We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,โ€ said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges.

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Only Within Their Own Institutions, Are Black Scholars without Honor!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This issue has been well documented by Black scholars throughout the years. At that moment, I discerned the looks I received from my faculty colleagues as suggesting that I was not qualified to speak to them about research, scholarship or anything intellectual because I was not, and will never be, on their level.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochesterโ€™s Warner School of Education and Human Development. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul. And they werenโ€™t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three. Dr. Robin L.

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Enhancing Family Experiences Through Financial Aid: Solutions and Strategies for Private K-12 Schools

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This diversity of background, expectation, and experience helped researchers get a full understanding of how both policies and human interactions influence parent experiences. Satisfaction often came down to how easy it was for parents to fill out documents and pay school expenses. Establish dedicated endowments or scholarships.